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Five Things the “Nuclear Bros” Don’t Want You to Know About Small Modular Reactors

Union of Concerned Scientists

This is due in no small part to the “ nuclear bros ”: an active and seemingly tireless group of nuclear power advocates who dominate social media discussions on energy by promoting SMRs and other “advanced” nuclear technologies as the only real solution for the climate crisis.

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Continuous Bose–Einstein condensate opens the door to continuous-wave atom lasers

Physics World

In 2013, Schreck and colleagues, then at Austria’s Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information and the University if Innsbruck, created the first BEC by the laser cooling of atoms rather than evaporative cooling. Jun Ye of JILA at the US National Institute for Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado is impressed.

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A focus on cutting-edge medical physics research

Physics World

In the area of radiation therapy, for example, several of the most influential papers on the development of intensity-modulated radiotherapy were published in PMB. I am honoured and thrilled to have this opportunity to intensify my commitment to the journal, having served on its editorial board since 2013. T MR-Linac.

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Frequency and distance of human travel follows universal pattern, mobile-phone data reveals

Physics World

Gravity and radiation. The radiation model adds the component of other places people could stop on their journeys: the less places there are to stop – to go shopping or to work, for example – the further people will travel. The data were collected during different periods between 2006 and 2013. Predictable and universal.

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Cosmic challenge: protecting supercomputers from an extraterrestrial threat

Physics World

In 2013 a gamer by the name “DOTA_Teabag” was playing Nintendo’s Super Mario 64 and suddenly encountered an “impossible” glitch – Mario was teleported into the air, saving crucial time and providing an advantage in the game. The culprit, again, was most likely cosmic radiation. Courtesy: STFC/CNR).

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Study underlines AI’s clinical potential in breast cancer screening

Physics World

For the study, the researchers used the test set of data, which included a total of 5182 DBT examinations performed between 2013 and 2018. Radiologists need to embrace and help mould the technology that is being developed,” Philpotts writes. The women in the test set had an average age of 60 years. ” Read more.

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Inquirer Guest Essay: DEP Needs To Evaluate Health Impacts Of Evaporating Leachate From A Westmoreland Landfill Accepting Shale Gas Drilling Waste

PA Environment Daily

If the radiation levels in the sludge decrease enough, the waste can be trucked to the same local landfills that handle household trash instead of being shipped by rail to radioactive waste disposal sites out west — a more expensive but safer option. Radium is commonly referred to by radiation experts as “ a bone seeker.”

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